A muselman procures ample temporary relief from worldly care for a mere trifle: he buys at the (_attara_), drug shop, for a penny, a small pipe of _el keef or hashisha_; this completely effects his purpose.

The leaves of this drug, which is a kind of hemp, are called _el hashisha_; the flower of the plant is called _el keef_, and is much more powerful in its inebriating quality than the _hashisha_, but a pipe of the latter will have as powerful an effect as two or three bottles of wine.